Improvement in plows



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OONSTANTINE A. HEGE, OF SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PLOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 62,549, dated April27, 1875; application filed March 17, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GONSTANTINE A. HEGE, ofthe town of Salem, county of Forsyth and State of North Carolina, haveinvented an Improvement in Plows; and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full and correct description of the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a portion of theplowbearn secured against a portion of the plowstandard. Fig. 2represents the adjustingplate grooved on the side next to the standard.Fig. 3 represents the grooved-plate on the side next to beam, havingteats attached and the wedges. Fig. at represents a portion of thestandard, with the grooves and slots.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of plows whichcontain a backward slanting standard, which is used to prevent the plowfrom choking with grass or weeds which may be upon the land, and myinvention is intended to render this class of plows perfectlyadjustable, so as to suit the various conditions of the soil, wherebythe plow can be made to run deep or shallow, or to take more or lessland, as the plowman may desire, without changing the position of thehandles; also to secure the beam and standard firmly together, so as totake all the strain off the screw securing the rear end of beam to thehandles.

The beam H is constructed of one solid piece of timber, to which thegroooed iron A is firmly secured by means of the teats F E,-

which are let in the beam by means of a mortise which exactly fits theteats F F. On the other side of grooved iron A, there are grooves 0, allcentering at the point where the rear end of beam is secured to thehandles, so that bea m H can be easily raised or lowered to any pointdesired, and yet fit in the grooves K, in the standard B, all of whichhave their center at the same point. The standard B is secured firmlyagainst the grooved iron A by means of a cuff passing around groovediron A and beam H, then through the slots D D in standard B, and istightened and screwed by nuts E E on the opposite side of standard Bfrom beam. The standard B is curved so as to form a true circlecorresponding with the flanges a a on grooved iron A, so as to admit ofthe beam H being raised or lowered without entirely removing the nuts EE. Two wedges are placed betw en the grooved iron A and the beam H,thereby causing the plow to take more or less land, as may be desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The plate A, having the lugs F F on its back, and concentrichorizontal grooves 0 between curved vertical flange a a. on its faceside, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The standard B, of the shape described and shown, having thehorizontally-concentric grooves K and the curved vertical slots D, asset forth.

3. The combination of the plate A, standard B, cuff b, beam H, andwedges c c, all constructed and arranged, as and for the purpose setforth.

G. A. HEGE.

Witnesses:

J. A. HEGE, JULIUS FUENFSTIOK.

